By
capturing the Australian Goldfields Open yesterday, Barry Hawkins became the 50th
player to win a full ranking event.
Here
is the list of 50 winners by number of titles:
36
Stephen
Hendry
28
Steve
Davis
24
John
Higgins
Ronnie
O’Sullivan
18
Mark
Williams
10
Jimmy
White
9
John
Parrott
Peter
Ebdon
6
Ken
Doherty
Neil
Robertson
5
Ray
Reardon
Ding
Junhui
Stephen
Lee
4
Stephen
Maguire
Shaun
Murphy
3
James
Wattana
Paul
Hunter
2
Cliff
Thorburn
Dennis
Taylor
Tony
Knowles
Doug
Mountjoy
Alan
McManus
Graeme
Dott
Dominic
Dale
Ali
Carter
Mark
Selby
Judd
Trump
Ricky
Walden
1
John
Spencer
Terry
Griffiths
Alex
Higgins
Willie
Thorne
Silvino
Francisco
Joe
Johnson
Neal
Foulds
Tony
Meo
Mike
Hallett
Steve
James
Bob
Chaperon
Tony
Jones
Dave
Harold
Nigel
Bond
Fergal
O’Brien
Chris
Small
David
Gray
Matthew
Stevens
Marco
Fu
Stuart
Bingham
Mark
Allen
Barry
Hawkins
Some
great names here and a few surprise winners too. It should also be pointed out
that the UK Championship did not become a full ranking event until 1984, which
thus diminishes the tallies of players such as Davis, Griffiths, (Alex) Higgins
and Mountjoy.
Indeed,
it wasn’t until 1982 that any event other than the World Championship counted towards
the world rankings, well past the prime of Reardon and Spencer.
The
youngest winner remains O’Sullivan, who won the 1993 UK Championship the week
before he turned 18.
The
oldest was Reardon, who was 50 when he won the 1982 Professional Players
Tournament.
Hendry has of course retired and thus cannot improve on his 36 titles and Davis has not won a ranking event
since 1995. O’Sullivan is not playing at the moment so (John) Higgins is best
placed to encroach on Hendry’s position at the top of the list, but still needs
to win 13 more ranking titles to overtake him. At the age of 37, this seems unlikely.
22 comments:
king HENDO
thanks for the interesting list dave
I think the best person to beat Hendry's tall right now is someone much younger like Ding or maybe Robertson but it is still unlikely.
Hendry's record will not be beaten in my lifetime I don't think!
In all truth it's a very silly stat really because the number of "ranking" events per season has changed so much over the years. I mean if it had remained the same and we'd spread all the rankers out over the years then Joe Davis would have the record. More by luck than skill has Hendry got to the top of this particular list but then stats are always a bunch of lies; if you honestly want to know who's the best then bad luck because you've set yourself an impossible task even if you could come up with a definition of "best".
Ok here is a record that has been in operational in the Davis/Hendry/Ronnie/Higgins/Williams Era
MASTERS,UK and WORLD
18 in 11 Seasons Hendry
15 in 17 seasons Davis
11 in 19 seasons O'Sullivan
9 in 16 seasons J Higgins
6 in 6 Seasons Williams
I love lists and stats but these types of lists can be misleading and understating/overstating the accomplishments of some...case in point, Joe Johnson and Barry Hawkins are both under the 1 win column...but its really apples compared with oranges...Joe's 1 win was at the World Championships beating out the top players of the day. Barry's was at Australia without even meeting one single top 10 opponent in any of his matches....apples to oranges...there should be an "*" next to some of these names.
"More by luck than skill has Hendry got to the top of this particular list."
:-)
3:32 .. Luck? Really? Most rankers and world titles just a case of good fortune?
Anyway, great list Dave.
12 in 19 for ronnie mate 4 worlds 4 uks 4 masters
Ebdon's edging closer to getting back into the top 16.
3.32 Luck..... oh yeah.... Let me have some of Hendry's luck then, can i?
Some people above seem to be able to use this, i will create a page listing the average titles won per season on CueTracker soon. Once the database is complete this should answer a few questions (remind me if I forget)
I don't understand the critic. This list doesn't rank any players but is just erm a list. And I find it interesting there are current players as Ricky Walden, Dominic Dale as well as Mark Selby in the same position (2 rankers). But one of them is Nr. 1 in the ranks. And Selby's achievment in the Masters doesn't count in both.
Never knew that about the UK not counting until 1984.Were there any other tournaments that later became full ranking events that Davis won?
Tons. A couple of (Wilson/Lada) Classics, three British Opens and one International Open and the first China Open (in its only non-ranking year). He also won 8 Irish Masters titles and a Canadian Masters, although they were primarily non-ranking events for most of their existence. He also won the Aus Open in its original form too, although that's been on and off down the years.
He has the second best ranking record in the game, so it's amazing really that it doesn't tell the full story.
Interesting and I know some players are overstated and understated due to various curious of past but always thought of Jimmy White as an underperformed but when you see him listed in that 5th category of 12 with 10 wins doesn't look so bad
11.37, Davis, White, Griffiths and others all won tournaments that later became rankers.
9.50am
it works both ways Murphy won the Malta Cup back to back the first was Ranking the second wasen't.
This list cannot be correct. Where is John Virgo ?
@8.04
UK wasn't a ranking event until 1984.
Where is John Virgo?
usually in the com box talking shite.
I think Hendry's record is safe for ever, as it would take a dominant player of his ilk to come through and don't see it happening.
Snooker is getting like golf where you get so many different winners, although the Big 3 event are still more likely to be won by a list of around ten contenders.
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